Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-23

Of the year, and the same on the 10Th.
twenty ~, cases OF sunstroke were reported at
milwaukee,, three fatal, and at Davenport,
la, three fatal cases on the 18th. There
was one death at GAINESVILLE, Wis, and one
at Winona, MINI.
The assessors books have just been
received BY the auditor Of Mower county,
showing the following acreage for 1887:
Wheat, 1886 acres; oats, SO, 922 acres: corn.
-24,S53 acres, barley, 26,2S9 acres; potatoes
! ,54o acres; cultivated hay, $685. acres
ma max, 1880 acres; iscellaneous, 5000 acres
except wheat. There is in the county al
the present time 1O, 3H milch cows, 1886
ne a OF other cattle, 6,068 sheep and about
Z 600 hogs.
A special election was held at Crook
ston, MINI. July IS, to vote $50, GOO in bonds
to aid the Brainerd & Northern railway to
reach Crookston. The bonds were voted by
I l, majority, the understanding being that
they go to the Manitoba Railway company.
The Manitoba is making surveys on a Iract
OF land adjoining Crookston for stock yards
and template:putting railroad shops there
and establishing division headquarters at
an early day. 3
Charles City, Iowa, special: The
chlnch bugs have destroyed large portion
of the wheat of this section, injured oats
ana barley, and are now doing considerable
rows TO some fields are already dead from
their effects. In 1886 they did some damage,
but early in July great rain destroyed
them. Besides being very dry, Tuesday,
intensely hot, SO to SO deg. in the shade.
one third.
Friday afternoon while loading hay
with hay loader John W. Wratzes, living
three miles from Spring Valley, MINI, had
MS foot torn off by q team running away.
catching his leg in the rope. The leg was
badly mangled, necessitating amputation
Gunder Hallem, a Norwegian living near
spring Valley, dropped dead Friday after
noon whle pumping water. doubtless from
sunstroke, as he complained of the heat and
left the field.
Instead of blowing out the gas Thurs
day night one of the lady guests at the Cliff
ton house, Mankato, upon retiring left a
candle burning in her room. 1t set fire to
her clothing, destroying it completely. No
other damage was done.
According to the Signal Service re-
port at ST. Paul, July Is, with the mercury
at 95, was he hottest day ever experienced
there, saw one, July 1. 1883, when the re-
port was 100. The same stage of heat pre-
vailed generally throughout the Northwest,
producing maximum of physical discom-
fort Two deaths occurred at st, Paul on
the 10th, from heat prostration. The lake
resorts were no cooler than the more crowd
ed cities and towns and there was no cool
Ing shade to be found anywhere.
Yankton, Dakota special; The COM
missioners of Douglas county are here to
retain counsel in the suit recently brought
against the county by Hon. F. Nj, Goody-
koontz to recover $500, 1000 lost on the
fraudulent bonds issued under the first or
ganlzatiOn of the county. This is the noto-
rious affair in which G. T. Mccoy and Hon.
NJ. II. Day were alleged to have been in
volved. -
At Rochester, Mimi, the residence of
G. b. Marvin, took fire from an explosion of
gasoline and was burned. The servant girl,
Olga Christofferson, was frightfully buried,
her clothing being nearly burned off and
her arms and legs completely blistered.
her injuries are not necessarily fatal Loss,
$5,OOO; insured in the Hartford for $500,
Sl,OOO being on furniture.
Pennington, Mimi, special goth: An
attempt was made to wreck the passenger
train on the Iowa & Minnesota division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
que at tins place at 9:30 p. M, by placing
ties up the track at a point about IL miles
east OF Wescott. The train stopped before
any damage was done.
The following are the earnings of
the Northern Pacific road for the second
week in July: Freight, $174, 100; 1886, $780,
~; increase $13,219. Passenger, $S1, O5S;
1856, $50, 04O: increase, s21, 0lS. Total, $272,-
S5S3 1856, $257, OSl increase S35, III. Mileage,
3,OS2; 1886, airs; increase, 3O4
The colored citizens of Winona and
La Crosse are making arrangements to hold
a big celebration at Winona, Aug. /, to com
memorate the establishment of free colony
at Liberia. Hundreds of colored people are
expected from all over the Northwest. Sew,
eral speakers of considerable reputation
will make addresses.
A young girl at Milwaukee committed
suicide Tuesday by jumping into the river,
She had been at work as domestic and
complaint had been made to her father that
she was keeping late hours and bad COM
pany. The father threatened to send her to
the industrial school, hence the suicide
At Plymouth on the 18th fire DESTROYED
Kolsta's hotel, the uuion depot, the Chicago
q Northwestern elevator, Gilman Bros.
cheese warehouse. Swartze's coal and feed
warehouse and the Milwaukee & Northern
railway coal sheds, together with most of
their contents. The loss aggregates $4,000:
insurance, S., 900.
The Norris Geyser hotelin the Y Yellowstone
Park, took fire on the 18th, from chimney
in the attic and burned. Much of the con.
tents was saved. The building cost 100000.
and was one of the series of Yellowstone
Park hotels Senator Vest was a guest at
the time Temporary Accommodations are
provided for tourists
Reports from Wausau, Wis, state
that great damage to the crops in that vi
cinity was wrought by the wind storm of
Saturday last. A barn in the town OF
Angels was blown to pieces, and number
of cattle injured. Hundreds of shade trees
were broken down.
The earnings of the st Paul & Duluth
road for the second week in July were az
follows: s35, 324.26 against $32, JOG, SO for the
corresponding week last year. Increase
$5,2l1, ~. From January to the 10Th inst.
$a45,5 96; corresponding period last year
$640, 713; increase $1O4.6S3
A special from Dillon, Mont, says
Henry Grabhorn shot his wife, killing he1
instantly, and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to kill himself, the bullet merely
dentlng his skull. He has been jealous fol
some time.
At Ashland, Wis, on the morning Of
the 18th, hot lamp exploded in the room
OF W. 81. Griffin and wife at the fremont
house burning both. Mrs Griffin has died
Mr.. Griffin is in the hospital
The Paine lumber yards and saw mills al
N. P. junction, Mimi, burned on the 18th
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